Electrochemical Study of Phenylvinylidene  Clusters Containing ReFePt Metal Cores  and Chelate Diphosphine Ligands

Chemistry, Vol 10, No 3 (2017)

Electrochemical Study of Phenylvinylidene Clusters Containing ReFePt Metal Cores and Chelate Diphosphine Ligands

Victor Vasilievich Verpikin, Dmitry Valerievich Zimonin, Oleg Sergeevich Chudin, Ruslan Olegovich Ergaev, Anatoly I Rubaylo, Galina Veniaminovna Burmakina

Abstract

The redox transformations of trinuclear phenylvinylidene CpReFePt(µ₃-C=CHPh)(CO)₅(P-P) [P-P = Ph₂P(CH₂)_nPPh₂, n = 2 (dppe), 3 (dppp)]clusters were studied by electrochemical methods at platinum, glassed carbon, and dropping mercury electrodes in acetonitrile solutions. It was established that one-electron oxidation of the clusters results in formation of the binuclear Cp(CO)₂RePt(μ=C=CHPh)(P-P) [P-P = dppe, dppp] complexes and Fe-containing fragments.